Toy



Oct. 15, 1929. J. MANGAN 1,731,342

TOY

Filed Feb. 14, 1929 Patented Oct. 15, 1929 UNITED STATES JOHN M. MANGAN, OF WILKES-BARBIE, PENNSYLVANIA TOY Application filed February 14, 1929. Serial No. 339,915..

This invention relates to toys or amusement devices, and particularly to a device having a figure which in its movements simulates the movements occasioned when climbing or descending a vertical object.

It is the purpose of this invention to produce a figured toy or amusement device the parts of the figure of which are articulated and caused to have oscillatory movement as the figure ascends or descends a post-like support with relation to which the figure is moved by hand.

It is a further object of this invention to produce a figure comprising parts which can be expeditiously and inexpensively manufactured by the well known stamping processes.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this applicatiomwherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in whicha Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a device embodying the invention;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Figure 3 illustrates a perspective view of one of the elements of the figure; and

Figure at illustrates a view in edge elevation.

In these drawings, 5 denotes an element '35 which is supposed to be held in a vertical position or at an incline, and for the purpose of aiding in the manipulation of the device the portion 6 of the member 5 below the dotted line 7 is preferably bent at an angle to the main portion so that the lower end will constitute a hand grasp for holding the member 5.

Preferably in the manufacture of the member 5 its edges are thickened or formed to produce beads 8'which tend to strengthen the structure, and the main portion of the member 5 or the web between the beads is provided with a zigzag slot 9, for a purpose to be presently explained.

A figure which is to be manipulated with respect to the member 5 comprises a plate 10 having apertures 11 and 12, each of which is intended to receive a pivot, such as 13,,by which an element of the figure is oscillatably mounted on the plate, as willpresently appear. The plate has integral projections, such as 14, at its side edges and these eXtensions are shaped to embrace the edge of the member 5 and to form finger grips 15 and 16 to be grasped in manipulating the figure up and down the member 5. The figure also consists of an upper element, generally identified by the numeral 17 and a lower element, generally identified by the numeral 18. These elements are of practically the same construction, except for an individuality which will be presently eX- plained. The upper member consists of a central body portion 19 having lateral proj ections 20 and 21 terminating, in the present showing, in upwardly projecting extensions 'go intended to simulate arms and it also has an upwardly projecting integral part 22 which may be decorated to simulate the features of a mammal. The main portionis also provided with an integral ear or lug 23 projecting v therefrom at an angle and this is intended to project through the slot 9 of the member 5 and to follow the curvature of the slot to impart an oscillatory motion to the member as the plate 10 is moved up and down the member 5. It is, of course, understood that the member is to be oscillatably mounted on the pivot 13 of the plate 10. The member 18 is constructed in the same manner as the member 17 except that the lateral extensions 24 and 25 35 thereof are shaped somewhat differently to simulate legs.

This member 18 is also provided with an angularly disposed lug or ear 26 which operates in the slot 9 as the member 18 oscillates on the pivot 13 of the plate 10. Preferably the lugs or cars 23 and 26 will be in such spaced relation to each other as to cause the members 17 and 18 to oscillate oppositely, that is to say, when the arms of the upper member are inclined in one direction, the legs of the member 18 will be inclined in the opposite direction and they will be oscillated oppositely as the figure is moved up and down the member 5.

I claim:

1. In an amusement device, a member having a slot compoundly curved, a figure comprismg a plate having laterally extending projections shaped to embrace the edges of the said member and constituting grasps for an operator, and elements simulating caricatures of parts of a mammal oscillatably mounted on the plate, each having a projection extending into the slot to engage its Walls and cause the element to swing on its pivot.

2. In an amusement device, a member having a slot compoundly curved, a figure comprising a plate having laterally extending projections shaped to engage the member for retaining the two partsassembled, and ele ments simulating caricatures of parts of a mammal oscillatably mounted on the plate, each having a projection extending into the slot to engage its Walls and cause the element to swing on its pivot. V

' JOHN M. MANGAN. 

